April 2015 - tor-dev - lists.torproject.org

PT-themed stuffed animals: huggable transports
by David Fifield 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

In an effort to improve pluggable transports' visual identity, we should introduce a line of stuffed animals. The only rule that the the animal's name has to be made out of the transport name. The meek meerkat! [1] The obfs blobfish! [2] The FTE eft! [3] The flash proxy banded quail (Philortyx fasciatus)! [4] The ScrambleSuit bumblebee (Bombus centralis)! [5] Call now, operators are standing by. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blobfish [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eft [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philortyx_fasciatus [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_centralis

3 2

Raptor
by Liste 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Some people say to track tor users there is a tool named raptor. It uses the packet data recognition to track via AS the data streams between tor hosts. Can be a good idea to split, merge, change the packet order, the data streams etc... to obfuscate the traffic with an algotithm to create false data recostruction? Example: Alice --->node-> node -> node --> Bob1 ----> False/EndOfStream ^ ^v ^v ^v ^v | \------- node <- node <- node <-- node ---------/ If a complex network is created and some random data and connection are added to negotiate the data obfuscation, is very difficult to track a single data stream or packet. When the data arrival, send some data (same payload size)to a random loop circuit. What do you think?

1 0

0.2.7 triage [almost there!]
by Isabela 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hello there! we are almost done with the triage of 0.2.7 - we have a good chunk of tickets organized into 2 groups at the spreadsheet. Now what I would like to ask people from today till our next IRC meeting (Core Tor meeting on Wednesday) is shape group 1 to be our final list. What that means? Review what is in there and what is not in there. We have added an extra column for you to have a chance to nominate things out of group 1 or to be added to group 1 (things from group 2). We are also asking that folks try to balance nominations always towards having more negative ones than positive ones (we don't want group 1 to end up with 200 tickets again :)) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H_kAcQQ-NpGpKWG9RlF3w-NhruKKE9EZJcR… Thanks for playing it! See ya on Wednesday) Isabela

2 2